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Asked if he's maintaining an altitude of 2,500-feet, he replies: 'Sir, we are not doing jack ... Sir, we got real bad vibrations. We're losing engines.'

The air traffic controller told Kalister to look for a highway to land on and suggested nearby Interstate 495.

Tragic fall: Dr Joseph Kalister (left), his wife Betty (right), and their daughter Nicole were on their way to see colleges in Boston when their plane started having engine issues

Tragedy: Betty Kalister (left) never got to tour a school in Boston with her daughter Nicole (right) because the pair died along with their husband as a plane they were in set fire after crashing into a house

'We have no engines, I need help,' Kalister said. 'We're gliding.'

That was the last decipherable thing he said before the transmission seemed to go dead.

After a period of silence the air traffic controller said, 'Radar contact is lost.'

At 5:45 p.m. the Beechcraft plane crashed into the home, killing everyone on board.

Cut too short: Sadly Nicole Kalister will never get to go to college or get married and get a job because she died in a freak plane accident just after her high school graduation

Loving family: Betty Kalister and Joseph Kalister, pictured here on their wedding day, were merely trying to help their daughter choose the perfect University when the plane they were in crashed into a suburban home

The plane was co-owned by another doctor who is based out of Tennessee, according to WDEF.

The wife of Cleveland orthopedic physician Rickey Hutcheson said the Kalisters family were scheduled to return from Massachusetts in July, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.

Starr Regional released a statement to WRBL: 'The members of the Starr Regional Medical Center family are deeply saddened by the tragic deaths of Dr Rick Kalister, his wife and daughter.

Survivors: Four people in the home - Aaron Rice (pictured) and his wife Carol McKenzie Rice (pictured), their two sons and their pets - escaped unharmed after the top floor of their house was engulfed in flames

Lucky to be alive: Carol miraculously cheated death with her family and her two adorable cats after a plane crashed into their home

A worker stood on a ladder on Monday while boarding up windows at the destroyed home

Town Girls Scouts are holding a fundraiser to help the family and a GoFundMe page has been created for them

National Transportation Safety Board Air Safety Investigator Doug Brazy (left) and Plainville Fire Chief Justin Alexander (right) walk around the damaged home on Monday and looked at all the destruction that took place

The home is located near a quarry, so the family was desensitized to hearing explosions and the house shaking

'He was an excellent doctor, an outstanding ER medical director and a respected, beloved member of our hospital team for the past 13 years.

'Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the Kalister family during this very difficult time.'

Four people in the home - Aaron Rice, his wife Carol McKenzie Rice, their two sons and their pets - escaped unharmed after the top floor of their house was engulfed in flames.

State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan called their escape 'a miracle'.

Rice said his wife and two sons were upstairs when the plane hit, while he was on the ground floor.

Four people in the home escaped unharmed after the top floor of their house was engulfed in flames

A photo of a Beechcraft plane similar to the one that crashed. It took off from Lancaster Airport in Pennsylvania

'We heard a loud bang and saw a fireball come down the back of the house,' he said.

The home is located near a quarry, so the family was desensitized to hearing explosions and the house shaking.

Rice said Monday: 'It wasn't until we saw flames that we really realized what was going on.

'The house above my kids' rooms was on fire when I came outside.'

Part of the Beechcraft BE36 aircraft sat in the yard of the home after the deadly plane crash on Sunday

Girls Scouts in town are holding a fundraiser to help the family and a GoFundMe page has been created to assist them in their time of need, Wicked Local reported.

'On Sunday, June 28th - there was a blast that sounded quite familiar to those that live near High Street in Plainville; it sounded like a quarry blast', according to a neighbor who set up the page.

'It took only seconds to realize that it was worth a look outside.

'You don't expect to see a home on fire, much less a fire moving as fast as it had from the attic to second floor - parts of the home falling off and with every flame getting higher and higher, ashes blowing all around the neighborhood - you heard nothing put popping.

Several area fire departments worked together and the inferno was extinguished after about three hours

'And the Rice family could do nothing, but watch and listen to the awful sound of their home turning to ashes.'

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration arrived on the scene on Monday.

Fighting the blaze was difficult because there are no fire hydrants in the neighborhood, Plainville Fire Chief Justin Alexander said.

Several other area departments helped and the inferno was extinguished after about three hours.

Neighbors reported hearing something amiss as the plane flew over the neighborhood.

Mike Brown was outside barbecuing when he heard the plane, looked up and saw it start to bank.

He said the engine sounded like it was sputtering and then heard a crash and saw smoke, according to the Sun Chronicle.